Ongoing regulatory issues and restrictive marketing rules are prompting CBD brands to pivot to functional mushrooms, the market for which in the UK is predicted to reach a value of £62m by 2025. With both reportedly offering cognitive health benefits, marketing mushrooms and CBD makes good strategic sense, explains Nootro Group CEO Cary Holmes in this HBW Insight deep dive. 

The US Federal Trade Commission is "fully prepared" to bring forward cases after issuing hundreds of penalty offense notices in April regarding health claims substantiation, and it is likely to seek injunctive and monetary relief, said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, at the National Advertising Division’s annual conference in Philadelphia.

The US FTC’s Sam Levine, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, discusses the advent of AI and the compounding risks consumers face in today’s evolving, largely unregulated, profoundly uncertain digital age.

Canadian firm launches US sales of Lumify Eye Illuminations 3-in-1 Micellar Cleansing Water and Eye Makeup Remover, Nourishing Lash & Brow Serum and Hydra-Gel Brightening Eye Cream. Each product contains hyaluronic acid, a fluid in eyes and joints which acts as a cushion and lubricant.

ODSP Director Cara Welch spoke about food programs structure and other supplement industry regulatory news days before first day on the job for agency’s first deputy commissioner for human foods, a post added in the human foods reorganization plan.

“We are concerned that these changes could divert resources, funding, and attention from the supplement market at a time when it is needed more than ever,” Democrats Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal says in letter to FDA.